We live in a society where it's pretty easy to pass the buck, not proofread children's books, and paint traffic lines directly over roadkill. It leads to some impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments. But, y'know, what can you do? Try a little harder? That's out of the question.
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What can you do, you know? I mean, you could go back and do it correctly, but it's good enough, right? These impeccable instances of poor judgement and on-the-job laziness make for some skillfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. Hey man, maybe it was almost lunch or something.
Sometimes it would take too much effort to do something the right way, so we resort to stunningly unprofessional "not my job" moments. We can't say we're proud of them, but boy do they save a whole lot of time. Sometimes it's actually harder to do it wrong. As long as there are annoying bosses and Friday afternoons, we'll have wonderfully incompetent "not my job" moments.
Sure, it's in everyone's best interest to go home early but sometimes it can help to get an extra second eyes on that bench you put right under a drain pipe. We're not complaining, we like seeing workplace incompetence and wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments, so keep it up everyone.
Hey, if someone tells you to install a toilet seat lid, it's not like it's your job to install the right sized one, and it's totally not your job to check and see if it's upside down or not. Here are some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments from the world of the just lazy enough.
We're always impressed by the work of the lazy and negligent. It gives us impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments, ranging from telephone poles in the middle of roads to roadkill-shaped gaps traffic lines. Blessed be the sweet hot laziness that leads to these wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments.
Maybe the task is too difficult, or maybe you're just too difficult. "Not my job" moments encapsulate how the laziest among us deal with problems. These "solutions" may be majestically incompetent and ridiculously unprofessional "not my job" reactions to a hard task, but we can't say we haven't done similar things at some time in our lives.
There wouldn't be design without a healthy number of design fails. There's people putting telephone poles in the middle of roads, goofing up headlines, photoshopping the ever-loving reality out of their ads, and making classic stupid signs. You've gotta love it when someone makes a great big sign for their local "Pubic Library." Here are some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments.
Work in any field long enough and you'll see your fair share of wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. There's slides that go right off buildings, misspelled signs and extremely lazy line painting, just to name a few. It makes you feel good about yourself to see people's majestically incompetent "not my job" moments.
"Hey man, they told me to paint the wall. They didn't say anything about not painting over the security camera lense." Whether it's an honest mistake, a case of neglect or straight up dumbassery, things often don't get done the way they should. Here's to the wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments of the world. If we're lacking one thing, it isn't finely tuned incompetence.
Not everyone is super great at what they do. Is that bad in the long run? Probably, yes. But for now we get some wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. People make some terrific misspellings, playground slides that go straight off the roofs of tall buildings, and incomprehensible construction decisions.
